HAWS v. VICTORIA COPPER MINING COMPANY (1895)

HAWS v. VICTORIA COPPER MINING COMPANY
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Argued: November 15, 1895
	Decided: December 23, 1895
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

HAWS v. VICTORIA COPPER MINING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 23, 1895. The case was argued before the court on November 15, 1895.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Utah Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 160 U.S. 303
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.